Narrative within Souvenir of Newport News, VA

Newport News, VA.
Progressive Newport News with its gigantic Ship Yard has claimed for its own the splendid harbor in whose deep water levithans of the worlds merchant marine can safely ride and whose banks bear the evidence in factory and workshop of the industry of progressive people. This part of the peninsula is bounded by the Chesapeake Bay, Hampton Roads and the James River and is most accessible and particularly rich in those things which the man or workman in search of rest, mental and physical, or of recreation seeks. By excellent trolley service on may obtain a view of the National Soldiers Home, Hampton Normal School, Old St. Johns Church and other important points of interest. At Old Point Comfort are located one of the most powerful fortifications on the Atlantic Coast. This fort with its massive stone and earthen ramports covers an area of twenty-seven acres and its garrison by ten companies of Coast Artillery consisting of 1,000 men and about forty-five officers. Newport News now has two Army Cantonments, Camp Hill and Camp Stewart also an Aviation Camp and the home of the Curtiss Aviation School. It is expected that Newport News will be one of the principal ports for the embarkment of our Soldier Boys for European invasion.
Description written by Joseph Kaufmann.

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Newport News, VA.
Progressive Newport News with its gigantic Ship Yard has claimed for its own the splendid harbor in whose deep water levithans of the worlds merchant marine can safely ride and whose banks bear the evidence in factory and workshop of the industry of progressive people. This part of the peninsula is bounded by the Chesapeake Bay, Hampton Roads and the James River and is most accessible and particularly rich in those things which the man or workman in search of rest, mental and physical, or of recreation seeks. By excellent trolley service on may obtain a view of the National Soldiers Home, Hampton Normal School, Old St. Johns Church and other important points of interest. At Old Point Comfort are located one of the most powerful fortifications on the Atlantic Coast. This fort with its massive stone and earthen ramports covers an area of twenty-seven acres and its garrison by ten companies of Coast Artillery consisting of 1,000 men and about forty-five officers. Newport News now has two Army Cantonments, Camp Hill and Camp Stewart also an Aviation Camp and the home of the Curtiss Aviation School. It is expected that Newport News will be one of the principal ports for the embarkment of our Soldier Boys for European invasion.
Description written by Joseph Kaufmann.